{"id":606,"date":"2021-06-15T10:27:08","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T17:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/artlectureseries\/?p=606"},"modified":"2021-06-15T10:27:08","modified_gmt":"2021-06-15T17:27:08","slug":"week-6-kaia-sand-wednesday-february-16th-2018-1130-100-pm-in-the-recital-hall-com-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/artlectureseries\/week-6-kaia-sand-wednesday-february-16th-2018-1130-100-pm-in-the-recital-hall-com-building\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 6, Kaia Sand: Wednesday, February 16th, 2018, 11:30-1:00 pm, in the Recital Hall, COM Building"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Kaia Sand<\/a> is a poet<\/a>, artist<\/a>, and community organizer. She is author of three books of poetry\u2014interval<\/a> (Edge Books 2004), a Small Press Traffic book of the year; Remember to Wave<\/a> (Tinfish Press 2010); and A Tale of Magicians Who Puffed Up Money that Lost its Puff<\/a> (Tinfish Press 2016); and co-author with Jules Boykoff of Landscapes of Dissent: Guerrilla Poetry & Public Space<\/a> (Palm Press, 2008).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sand works across genres and media, dislodging poetry from the book into more unconventional contexts. From 2013-2015, she served with Garrick Imatani as artists-in-residence at the City of Portland Archives and Records Center, responding to historical surveillance files on local political activists; and then she created textile art with street vendor Marcia Rodrigues Braga during her Despina International Artist Residency<\/a> in Rio de Janeiro in 2015.  Much of her work has focused on economic injustice and homelessness, from a magic show<\/a> she created about the financial collapse to the Right 2 Survive<\/a> Ambassador Program she co-founded for housed people to learn from people experiencing homelessness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She is the executive director of Street Roots<\/a>, a weekly newspaper sold in Portland, Oregon, by people experiencing homelessness and poverty as means of earning an income.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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